Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-04
CAPITAL COMING SOUTH.

Many are the causes given and ad-
vanced in explanation of the era of III
paralleled prosperity now being enjoyed
by the south and southwest. The new
discoveries of rich mines, the successful
manner in which manufacturing enter
prises thrive in the south, and the greater
interest paid on capital invested, have
doubtless combined in directing the
course of capital southwards, but there
are other reasons more potent than these.
There are reasons more powerful than
even the desire for gain at work, slowly,
silently, increasingly. There are forces
which resist all power, all obstruction,
and these are the natural laws which gov
ern men; teach them where and how 1t
is best for them 20 live, and in what pur-
suits to engage. The advance Of civiliza-
ton, from its initial steps on the Eu-
pirates and Nile, shows clearly that men
congregate where they can most easily
obtain The necessaries of life. Tyre rose
and flourished for time, until
other localities were discovered, where
other cities were built and people
could live better, when it returned to q
deserted place. People focked around
the shores of the Mediterranean and to
the cities of the east until that class
known as the pioneers of civilization dis
covered other lands where the necessaries
and luxuries OF life were more easily OBJ
tanned, and induced their fellowmen to
90 with them to found new cities and de-
velop q new country. In time, the over
c1owding Of these newly-founded COM
mUnities created new school of ambi-
tious pioneers who sought for and found
whereon to plant young and more
prosperous civilization. Thus have we
seen the star of empire move along from
place to place, sweeping before it all the
puny opposition of man. 1t is not alone
judgment which guides people in this
matter. 1t is more an animal instinct
than otherwise. The whole race of ami
mails belonging TO the brute creation Sc
lect unerIingly the localities and environ
ments best adapted 10 their welfare. In
other words, they go where the necessa-
ries of life are most easily OBJ
tanned. The people of Europe are
flocking to America annually from
their own over crowded homes,
because in the new world the price of ex-
istence is less than where they live.
That great fundamental law of self-pre-
servation, with it's various ramifcations,
is forever leading men onward to where
they can not only sustain life, but to
where the fruits of labor are greater, rem
dering the accumulation of wealth posi-
BILE. So, too, in the north and east,
which sections of the Union are becoming
peopled with Europeans and natives to
such an extent that the necessaries of
life are more difficult to obtain than in
the southwest, all who can, or who have
an intelligent conception of this country,
are coming here. Capital chung to the
delights of society for long time, until
it could scarcely secure an existence, but
finally concluded it best to come and
trough it." These natural laws are be-
ginning to be more and more appreciated
every day. Existence being the basic
principle of life, and accumulation the
special pursuit of capital, each gravitates
towards the point where its object can
be accomplished in the easiest manner.
Common sense teaches men that
they can supply themselves with the
necessaries Of life easier on a farm in
Texas than in The city of New York, and
business sense convinces the manufac-